One of the frustrating things when trying to express complicated ideas is that they are often (always?) constructed out of chains of other ideas. While it's hard to check whether there are infinite regressions to any idea (you'll need an infinite amount of time to check. Heck, take two infinite time periods and make sure you get it right. I'll throw in these infinite monkeys while I'm at it) it sometimes feels like it when you realize that:
to explain A your audience needs to understand A-1
and to understand A-1 they'll need to know A-2 and
A-2 is meaningless unless you have a good grasp of A-3 and, pretty soon,
How to Use This Wiki - structure
One of the frustrating things when trying to express complicated ideas is that they are often (always?) constructed out of chains of other ideas.
While it's hard to check whether there are infinite regressions to any idea (you'll need an infinite amount of time to check. Heck, take two infinite time periods and make sure you get it right. I'll throw in these infinite monkeys while I'm at it) it sometimes feels like it when you realize that:
to explain A your audience needs to understand A-1
- and to understand A-1 they'll need to know A-2 and
- A-2 is meaningless unless you have a good grasp of A-3 and, pretty soon,
- you realize it's turtles all the way down
Wikis help you tackle structured information more easily because you can link from something you're writing before you create the page for it.For example, I can create a link to the word 'bagelbite' in WikiSpaces in two ways depending on whether I'm using the Visual Editor or using WikiText.
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